Synopsis
"I hope you haven't forgotten me. Shall we play?"
Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted forensic mind. She’s the lynchpin of a top-secret project, Red Queen, created to work across borders to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes, those that are beyond the skills of the regular police.
But the Red Queen project is under attack on all fronts. Across Europe,...
Details
04 September 2025432 pages
9781529093841Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Best thriller books of 2023 . . . What impresses is the brainy brio of Gómez-Jurado's storytelling, as well as his striking depiction of Madrid as two cities, an elegant baroque facade concealing a gothic underworldSunday Times
Red Queen is one of the most extravagantly entertaining novels I’ve ever read. Sprinting from spectacular surprise to even-more-spectacular surprise; whirling from one crisply textured character to the next . . . it's an electrifying serial-killer thriller, a fiendishly clever puzzle mystery, and a sensitive portrait of a fascinating young woman. Red Queen tops even The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as a thinking reader’s thriller, and Antonia Scott is like a more sympathetic Lisbeth Salander. I loved every word.A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
A Spanish spin on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . . . stylish and stylised . . . A female Sherlock HolmesThe Times
Often compared with Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Antonia Scott looks destined to leave every bit as lasting an impression.Daily Mail
